14 From people by (A)Your hand, Lord,
From people [a]of the world, (B)whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly You (C)fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And leave their abundance to their babies.

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  1. Psalm 17:14 Or whose portion in life is of the world

14 By your hand save me from such people, Lord,
    from those of this world(A) whose reward is in this life.(B)
May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;
    may their children gorge themselves on it,
    and may there be leftovers(C) for their little ones.

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Their eye [a]bulges from (A)fatness;
The imaginations of their heart overflow.

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  1. Psalm 73:7 Lit goes forth

From their callous hearts(A) comes iniquity[a];
    their evil imaginations have no limits.

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  1. Psalm 73:7 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew Their eyes bulge with fat

10 (A)All that my eyes desired, I did not refuse them. I did not restrain my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor; and this was my (B)reward for all my labor.

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10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
    I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
    and this was the reward for all my toil.

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